veritosproject wrote:
> I might have is something like [kejemp], but with the "eje" part a bit
> faster.
>
(earlier)
> > On 3/23/06, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > How many of you differentiate the vowels in "camp" and "cap"?
> > > Mine (former Oregonian, now in Canada) come out somewhat like ['kj&mp]
> > > and [k&p].
> >
How about "can't" vs. "cat"? Or "tamp, tap, cab"? Sounds like you may have
acquired the breaking/raising of low vowels before nasals (generally?)--
it's more common before final dentals (t/d/n), as first reported in the
60s/70s in NYC speech (homonymous bed/bad, sure/shore etc.). Though like so
much in modern US speech, it may actually have originated on the West
coast........There's a website about this, but I don't have the url; it's
been mentioned before.

There may also be a more general tendency to palatalize [k] before
low-frontish vowels-- old Charleston SC dialect supposedly had things like
[kja(r)] for 'car'; and of course early French (champ, chat, Charles <
Carolus, ult. Germanic?)